Graduate Student

Dylan Furcall

19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American
Poetry

Autumn Gable

Old English
Middle English
Critical Theory
Textual Criticism
Cultural Studies
Gender & Sexuality Studies

Londiwe Gamedze

African American
African
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel

Christopher Geary

18th-Century British
Irish
Renaissance and Early Modern
Critical Theory
Narrative & the Novel
Atlantic

Ricardo Gomez

Andrew J Haas

Critical Theory
19th-Century British
20th- and 21st-Century British
19th-Century American
20th- and 21st-Century American

My research explores the relationship between global modernisms, dialectical thought, and critical social theory. My dissertation, The Surplus Standpoint: Unemployment and the Crisis of Dialectical Representation, argues that systemic unemployment since the nineteenth century has undermined available modes of social self-representation, producing crises not only in political economy but in aesthetic and philosophical representations of society more broadly. Working across literary and visual modernisms—from Alice Neel’s portraiture to the novels of...

Edil Hassan

Erika Higbee

20th- and 21st-Century American
Asian American
Chicanx and/or Latinx
Creative Writing
Cultural Studies
Poetry

Marian Homans-Turnbull

Middle English
Cultural Studies

John Patrick James

18th-Century British
19th-Century British
Critical Theory
Poetry

My research focuses on Romanticism and late-enlightenment literature and culture, with a particular emphasis on poetry and poetics. I am especially interested theories of the earth, ranging from theological discourse in the Restoration to the then-emergent science of geology during the Romantic era, as well as in the notion of "environment" as conceived through aesthetics and philosophy of mind over the long eighteenth century. I have written most recently on William Blake and John Clare, and am researching the Scottish poet James Thomson. That said, my interests range widely, vectoring...